Path of Exile

Switched to Ylfeban for now on the AG.

I run pretty safe maps now and have not lost any spectre or AG yet. But I'm sure I can juice more and they start to lose hp.

Running AG, Spirit of Fortune, Perfect Forrest Tiger, Perfect Forrest Warrior and Baranite Cleric right now.

How many sockets do you need for AG? Is it worth running for a strike build, specifically static strike of gathering lightning?

Uriel said:

How many sockets do you need for AG? Is it worth running for a strike build, specifically static strike of gathering lightning?

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If you're absolutely socket starved and have no points spent on minion stuff on your passive tree you can get through most content with two (AG + Meatshield) provided you're prioritizing gear that keeps him alive instead of trying to squeeze out utility. I went with a doppleganger's guise and a percent life on block shield along with some resist gear and it just didn't quite get the job done in T16s. I need to take another pass at the gear but making it a two link addressed most issues.

Deathwing said:

Anyone gotten breach hive or fortresses inside the mirage? Been running them for a few hours on different layouts and not once.

AG stealing the corpse explosion mod is unnerving.

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Yea one of my main farms is spamming hives to get double fortresses. It works best on haunted mansion because it's so tiny and the mirage almost always hits the breach.

Boss rush NM Ziggurat is pretty decent income.

Cost is 20-25 Chaos per map and a Sinistral and Dextral Scarab is another 2-3 Chaos. Then with RNG you get 1-3 of the good fragments and at worst a 30 Chaos one.

Seems to be around 15-25 Div an hour depending on RNG. But its fast and easy and no thinking involved. Just rush boss, I open Stashes for maybe a Blueprint on the way and get the NPC helper to follow along.

I even learned the fight! But I die because I don't see the shit on the floor with all the minion chaos.

Got a Doryani now with +2 AoE corrupt, 6link and colored it correctly. So now I can start adding items I need as I go for the future swap.

Interestingly enough, almost done Tier 11 maps and I've only seen 2 fortresses, one of which was in the Mirage radius. As most people I started skipping them during the league, but since wombgifts seem a lot scarcer now I assume they are def more important to run. I haven't worn a single piece of equipment from the tree yet, sob!

Unless they are more common later? Edit - of course, stupid me, I don't have any Atlas points invested in it yet, I am Blight/Ore right now, but I also don't have it blocked out.

Deathwing said:

That was the one map I got the mirage on the breach.

What do you do with your provisioning gifts? I sell the antiques, turn the mysterious into antiques, use the lavish, but still got extra hiveblood and lots of provisionings.

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I can't say what the market looks like now as we're a couple of weeks in now but I made very good money last week just doing basic bitch resist + chaos gear.

More resists, more chaos, block a few things, prioritize rings, and be sure NOT to take the node that culls the lowest ilvl affix because that will almost always eat a life roll. It will constantly shit out like 100+ resist rings or double res + chaos. Anything that doesn't have a life roll you can just solo slam because exalts are worthless or toss in the recombiner if that's your bag. Unfortunately crafted life is pretty bad these days so unless the ring has nearly perfect suffixes I didn't have much luck trying to sell crafted life rings for more than a couple dozen chaos.

You end up getting quite a lot of nice t1 resist ring fractures as well, and even if it doesn't roll rings the boots/glovees/hats can come out very nice as well as long as they hit a decent chaos roll.

If you wanna gamble for larger items going for caster shields can hit some huge jackpots, but the misses don't sell nearly as well as the B-tier for basic resist gear. More shields, more int bases, less dex and str bases, then prioritize caster mods, crit mods, pick an element of your choice or physical to fish for +1 skills. Again here do NOT take the cull lowest affix node because that always eats your +1 roll. Anything that comes out as +1 lightning or phys with any kind of spell damage or lightning damage can be shaper slammed for +1 totem to sell to the KF meta nerds for a good chunk.

Deathwing said:

That was the one map I got the mirage on the breach.

What do you do with your provisioning gifts? I sell the antiques, turn the mysterious into antiques, use the lavish, but still got extra hiveblood and lots of provisionings.

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Rings are an option as ronne said but those were getting old.
Lately I have been doing boots and gloves with more defense, more chaos, more speed.

Slam maps until 50k+ tree juice, spend it all on provisioning. Usually results in a quad tab full of items.
Spend 40min exalt slamming, blocking+exalt slamming, pricing and putting up for sale.
Made a a few hundred div pretty easy doing this.

The big hits are T1 movespeed or T1 atk speed with good armour/evasion/ES prefixes and high tier suppress suffix with one good res roll.
Also got a few random high tier bases with fractured T1 chaos res which I slammed with the appropriate deafening essence until hitting something good then sold for a nice chunk of divs.

One thing to note is the market is flooded with items at this point so a lot of gear that is rolled very well by past standards goes only for a few chaos, if that.

Tried doing juiced maps for the first time in a couple year (XT7800 and AMD 9800X3d), and my shader bar is constantly full, particularly on Delirium maps. Tried clearing shader folder and didn't seem to help any. Any solutions? Reddit is a mess and isnt really helping

Delirium Grey scale has fucked performance in poe forever.

There should have been a setting added that made it purely a change in coloration with no other effects and it should have been added the league after Delirium. Having it be a thing that layers on top of everything else is ass.

Juvarisx said:

Tried doing juiced maps for the first time in a couple year (XT7800 and AMD 9800X3d), and my shader bar is constantly full, particularly on Delirium maps. Tried clearing shader folder and didn't seem to help any. Any solutions? Reddit is a mess and isnt really helping

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I used to use Vulkan and it was better, then it wasn't and I switched to DX12. I definitely had that problem a league or two ago and unfortunately I can't remember what fixed it, but I'm pretty sure it was switching to one of those from the other.

That exalt change was amazing. Long live Andrew and Octavian.